This paper studies the effect of oil prices on the geography of international trade. We model transport costs as a … reallocation of trade at the expense of remote countries. In that respect, an increase in oil prices should favor regionalism. …

upgrading of the EU15 imports from its emerging neighbours. The EU15 trade with emerging markets in Asia have strengthened the …

We study how the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China has affected the survival, average wage, employment and … entry of more productive ones. Hence, in a fast-growing economy like China, there is a cleansing effect of labor market …

terms of trade. Our results suggest that the Chinese fiscal policy targeting exports follows a variety of objectives whose …

to exporters. Indeed, China's VAT system is not neutral, in particular because the exporters may not receive complete … performance in China. Our empirical analysis relies on export volume data at the HS6 product level over the 2003-12 period. To … address potential endogeneity, we exploit an eligibility rule that disqualifies processing trade with supplied materials from …

understanding of trade. In particular, the recent work of Khandelwal (2010) has brought the insights of structural IO models of … demand to bear into trade data. Our work builds on this new structural literature; we use similar demand estimation … techniques on a panel of Danish apparel firms from 1997 to 2010 in order to analyze how firms responded to China's entry to the …

In this paper, we estimate firm-level markups and test some micro-level predictions of a model of international trade …